J. Storer Clouston

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J. Storer Clouston


Born
in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
May 23, 1870

Died
June 23, 1944

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Joseph Storer Clouston, although born in Cumberland, was classed as an Orcadian author and historian as he originally came from an old Orkney family.

He was the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Smith Clouston and his wife Harriet (nee Storer). He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford. Although he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, he never practised as a lawyer.

His first published book was Vandred the Viking; or The Feud and the Spell (1898) and the following year he published what was to be his most celebrated work, The Lunatic at Large, to which there were a number of sequels.

He married his wife Winifred at St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife on 11 March 1903 and at one time t
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The Lunatic at Large

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Vandrad the Viking

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The Spy in Black

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Simon

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Count Bunker

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The Man from the Clouds

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The Adventures of M. D'Haricot

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The Mystery of Number 47

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The Complete Works of Josep...

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The Lunatic at Large Again

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“By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!'

'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.'

Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.”
J. Storer Clouston, The Lunatic at Large

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